The 80's had the right balance of technology. It was just enough to intrigue people but wasn't protrusive to the point where it was running your life as it is today
I loved all these ads on the TV when I was a kid. "And all because the lady loves milk tray". Absolute gem. And that Smith's crisps one was so funny. Still miss them. Ahhhh... the memories.
I remember when the two main crisp manufacturers were Golden Wonder and Smiths Crisps, and the small blue bag of salt found in the packets of Golden Wonder crisps. Happy days. Love seeing these ads.
@@angelametcalfe9142 Yes, I'm always amused by people being nostalgic about Salt n Shake! They're still about though under the Walker's name and in the hundred and two years since they were first introduced have never gone away for more than a few years!
@@nickhirst999 yea i had some not so long back. I still remember the little white packet the crisps came in with the wee blue salt packets. For me you could never beat Tudor tho
Can you imagine the slogan for Opal Fruits being changed to “Starburst! Made to make your mouth water!” Just doesn’t have the same ring to it! 😳I’ll always call them Opal Fruits!
@@RetroSteveUK Hi Steve, yeah I forgot what it tastes like but I googled it lol the inside had creamy nougat and caramel topped off with dark chocolate, good old Google, keep up the good work
The amount of shite on T.V right now with Piers Morgan ect… I would rather watch these adverts on repeat for the rest of my life than listening to that frigging bumbaclut!
Agreed! It’s such a blooming shame how all the chocolate has been filled with more sugar and strange fatty substitutes. I just don’t buy the old small snack choc bars anymore or even the bigger bars. They’re all rubbish. Plain chocolate Club was one of my absolute favourites as a child- where did it go? Only ever see Orange l, perhaps the Fruit ones on the shelves these days and as I said, the chocolate’s never truly hard, just fatty. It’s funny, I’m not 50 and yet nothing is as it was. Given my own parents and grand parents have muttered the same refrain over the years, one wonders seriously just how badly we have degraded the food we eat and society generally. Sad times.
That's John Peel voicing the Trio ad. Milk Tray was one of the best series of commercials ever with a great jingle by Cliff Adams. The unmistakable Ed Bishop in the Wispa ad. Sounds like Chris Tarrant at the end of the Smiths Crisps ad - he did quite a few commercials.
Why we had to change from Marathons to Snicker bars!? I always loved Treets Which were all chocolate flavour with a nut. But now M&Ms are all different colours .
@@justahappylittlebunny2656 was that in the summer when the sweets got stuck to the wrapper I wonder. Unwrapping them half melted used to be a chore and a half.
Yet again, I love how inspirational these ads were in those days. The Twix one (10:53) and the Mars one at the end again are almost worthy of a West End production
" WHAT HAS AN HAZELNUT IN EVERY BITE ? " The answer was" TOPIC ", the nutty chocolate bar in a red wrapper. But of course, kids being kids are answer was always " SQUIRREL SH*T " 🤣 Oh and does anybody else remember: TEXAN, CABANA OR SPANGLES ?
@@al201103 I adored Cabana bars. Never understood why they don’t bring them back. Now what was it that you had to “ bite through the chocolate and chew rrreeeaaal slow!!?“
My God, those fruit Polos were nice! Closest thing I've had since are the American candy, Jolly Ranchers. Seriously, give those a try if you see any in those shops that do American sweets.
Oh we had loadsa tellys just like that from the 70's right through to the late 80's or more i think but i always remember banging the top of the telly then the sides and jim used to say'why you doing that?' Id say cus me mam and dad was always banging theirs when the picture was going..🤪🤣
Didn't remember that fruit n nut advert but there was one with the same song but a bit faster with animated characters think it was in the early 1990s that looks like a 1970s version forget all about them pizza crisps
The adverts would start and someone would put the kettle on, whilst another went for a piss, and the rest channel hopped. This is the first time I've seen some of these.
What the last comment said about the trio lady getting 23years for a dui thats a long time Anyway another great complaiton of sweet ads AMAZING STEVE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS X CHARLOTTE co
Can we discuss the multi flavoured pack of Yoyo. Different coloured smaller ones, lime green, blackcurrant purple, a red one. I don't recall the others
After 30 years or so I sang my way through all these adverts word for word almost, it just goes to show the brainwashing power of television on the general public !
It's even worse in the US because we have advertising much more than most other nations, including things that are illegal to advertise almost everywhere else as well.
Plastic crisp bags a paper wrapping on whispers even opalfruits before they changed to starburst... oh and a crap Gary Lineker 😆 I'm starting to wonder if the makers of these ads was under the influence 😆
@@mgthestrange9098 I seem to remember the emergence of salted caramel around the time it was showing up a lot on TV shows & movies. I think it's predominantly an American import.
Opal Fruits - with the original yellow/lemon sweet, now replaced by the inferior purple/blackcurrant sweet. Fun fact: did you know that the line "Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water" was created by former F1 commentator Murray Walker?
Club biscuits used to have 3 foot thick chocolate, now it’s spray painted on.
ps Yorkie biscuits are still quite decent in the chocolate department
Lol totally..
"If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit...," travel back to the 70's.. You've got to "lubs" the 70's.
Re Club biscuits have they stopped doing the purple raisin ones? They were my favourite! 🙄
@@victoriaamos3175 I haven't seen the raisin ones for donkeys, or the ones with the golf ball on the wrapper
Absolutely brilliant. Back in the day when the adverts were better than the programmes!!
True, now even the adverts are S£!t
@@madmatts9010 its all bollox now ,
The 80's had the right balance of technology. It was just enough to intrigue people but wasn't protrusive to the point where it was running your life as it is today
Very true Steven.
That protrusive technology eh? Gets annoying when the batteries run out.
It was great. I guess that we just end up moving ever forward. Imagine what some in the 1880s would have thought of the 1980s.
I loved all these ads on the TV when I was a kid. "And all because the lady loves milk tray". Absolute gem. And that Smith's crisps one was so funny. Still miss them. Ahhhh... the memories.
Golden oldies. Walkers Crisp, when you actually got more crisp than air 🤣
And more crisp than Gary!!
Yes!!!!!!!!
Absolutely wonderful ,ahh we've lost something ain't we folk's, life is not the same,
I remember when the two main crisp manufacturers were Golden Wonder and Smiths Crisps, and the small blue bag of salt found in the packets of Golden Wonder crisps. Happy days. Love seeing these ads.
It was Smiths Salt n Shake that had the little blue packet of salt
@@angelametcalfe9142 Yes, I'm always amused by people being nostalgic about Salt n Shake! They're still about though under the Walker's name and in the hundred and two years since they were first introduced have never gone away for more than a few years!
@@nickhirst999 yea i had some not so long back. I still remember the little white packet the crisps came in with the wee blue salt packets. For me you could never beat Tudor tho
Gas far better than walkers but can't get em.
GW not gas ffs
I actually used to like these adverts as a kid.
Before Dime bars, we had Buttersnap which was the same in taste and texture. Delicious!
And mint craknell
The Opal Fruits jingle was written by the late Murray Walker, F1 commentator, during his career in advertising.
That's the best fact I've heard all year 👍
The best thing about scampi lemon Nik Naks was sniffing your fingers afterwards 😂
i went to school with a girl called nik naks
@@settlece 🤣🤣🤣
Can you imagine the slogan for Opal Fruits being changed to “Starburst! Made to make your mouth water!” Just doesn’t have the same ring to it! 😳I’ll always call them Opal Fruits!
I still call them opal fruits. And snickers will always be marathon to me too.
It would have made more sense to call them fruitburst.
Remember loads of these. The Niknak one and Smiths crisps I ain’t seen since I was a kid 😂
We had a telly like that. Lovely memories thanks.💜🎁💜
I miss the see through crisp packets, but most of all ..TRIO!! It was a nice bar
Farmfoods for trio biscuits
@@jamescameron3905 cheers, I'll have look next time I'm in a farmfoods
That advert was inspired by Stan Freberg's recording of "The Banana Boat Song", which was turned into a cartoon called "The Calypso Singer".
@@OofusTwillip yea , the original is quite soothing, a timeless classic
Crisps had a greasier flavour in those bags😋 Quavers were much nicer.
Brilliant ads and a great era can't stand nowadays ads hate this era
Brilliant adverts. Better than the programmes.
I've always LOVED the excellent word play in the Wotsists school field-trip roll-call advert!! The brand's most memorable!!!
Arrgghhh, I hate that one! The little turds need a good kick up the arse! I skipped it.
Lovely memories thanks so much
Opal fruits and marathons. I remember all of these adverts .
I used to fix TV sets just like that miss them. And the adds back there were so good
Thorn TX10 era? Designed and made in the UK?
Who would have thought that adverts would eventually sell funeral plans!
Wow. I had forgotten how long standing Gary Lineaker's advertising for Walker's crisps was!
Slimy git.
He still gets royalties for them today
Hard to believe someone could be an obnoxious to@@er for that length of time
I loved a Trio and a Mint Club bar! A mint club was always often to be found in my lunchbox! Until I went and had a Harvest Crunch bar
Well I loved the purple Club bar. But they seem to have vanished since Covid. Hey maybe it’s connected!😜🤣
Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane.
I wish they'd bring back mint cracknel and the banjo they were good
And Fry's five centers nutty bar amazin raisin bar and the Texan bar God I could go on forever Sylvia 😋
In the twix ad at 11:18 - coming up the escalator on the right, Jane Horrocks, on the left Gina McKee!
Daamn! Yeah! Well spotted.
Does anyone else remember the Aztec bars, they were similar to a Mars bar
I remember them, but I can't remember what they tasted like. If it's like a Mars, I'm on-board. 😋
@@RetroSteveUK Hi Steve, yeah I forgot what it tastes like but I googled it lol the inside had creamy nougat and caramel topped off with dark chocolate, good old Google, keep up the good work
@@sandrakilday3551 That sounds really delish.
Used to have a panel in the corner which you rub a pencil over and it revealed a single digit number - the significance of which I never knew!
Yes I do 😋
Yes Retro Steve. These Adverts Brings Back So Much Memories And It Still Lingers In Me Forever And Ever😃😀. Keep it up Bro... One Love!!!
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The amount of shite on T.V right now with Piers Morgan ect…
I would rather watch these adverts on repeat for the rest of my life than listening to that frigging bumbaclut!
Fruit n nut is still my favourite 😋
I never realized Lineker's illustrious involvement with Crisps reached so far back in time
He was signing autographs at the walkers office in Theale in late 90's I worked there. I was too scared to go up though lol.
Absolutely brilliant ads
Lovely trip down memory lane 🥰
SOmeone should post this to Jacobs so they can see how much chocolate used to be on a club, as opposed to the nano thin layer you get today.
Agreed! It’s such a blooming shame how all the chocolate has been filled with more sugar and strange fatty substitutes. I just don’t buy the old small snack choc bars anymore or even the bigger bars. They’re all rubbish. Plain chocolate Club was one of my absolute favourites as a child- where did it go? Only ever see Orange l, perhaps the Fruit ones on the shelves these days and as I said, the chocolate’s never truly hard, just fatty.
It’s funny, I’m not 50 and yet nothing is as it was. Given my own parents and grand parents have muttered the same refrain over the years, one wonders seriously just how badly we have degraded the food we eat and society generally.
Sad times.
You've just lost Asda a sale. It's 8.45pm and I was just fancying one! Shan't bother now.
lovely . Some you can still buy today, but loved the Dime Bar.
I've seen Dime Bars in Asda, I don't guarantee they taste the same, but I have bought a couple over the lockdown seemed pretty much as I remember.
@@kimpittman2094 Thanks Kim i'm off to Asda
That's John Peel voicing the Trio ad.
Milk Tray was one of the best series of commercials ever with a great jingle by Cliff Adams.
The unmistakable Ed Bishop in the Wispa ad.
Sounds like Chris Tarrant at the end of the Smiths Crisps ad - he did quite a few commercials.
Thankyou for this blast from the past
Why we had to change from Marathons to Snicker bars!? I always loved Treets Which were all chocolate flavour with a nut. But now M&Ms are all different colours .
I have not had opal fruits for years but as with all these in the ad, I can still remember how they taste
Mmm loved the strawberry flavour
@@J5X7 I can remember as a kid in the 80s seeing opal Fruits advertised as Starburst and marathon advertised as Snickers on SKY on cable in the UK
@@dawnfinch8232 my favourite was always lemon, really sharp but a little sweet. Mmm .
When I was a kid 70s the boy next door ate opal fruits with the paper on !
@@justahappylittlebunny2656 was that in the summer when the sweets got stuck to the wrapper I wonder. Unwrapping them half melted used to be a chore and a half.
Loved the trio advert
Better days sadly passed but always loved 😆😆😆👍👍👍👍👍brilliant
Yet again, I love how inspirational these ads were in those days. The Twix one (10:53) and the Mars one at the end again are almost worthy of a West End production
" WHAT HAS AN HAZELNUT IN EVERY BITE ? " The answer was" TOPIC ", the nutty chocolate bar in a red wrapper.
But of course, kids being kids are answer was always " SQUIRREL SH*T " 🤣
Oh and does anybody else remember: TEXAN, CABANA OR SPANGLES ?
I loved Texan bars
If you take the biscuit base off a double decker you have what's close to how a texan was.
Ironically, Texan bars were never sold in the US.
Yeah, remember all three. Cabana was my favourite bar for a while. Surprised any of us had any teeth left with Texan bars!!!!
@@al201103 I adored Cabana bars. Never understood why they don’t bring them back. Now what was it that you had to “ bite through the chocolate and chew rrreeeaaal slow!!?“
Don’t Forget The Fruit Gums Mum ?…Refreshers, Spangles, Humbugs….😂👍🙏…Everyone’s A Fruit & Nut Case…
I actually preferred the fruit polo over the mint one! big fan of opal fruits.
My God, those fruit Polos were nice! Closest thing I've had since are the American candy, Jolly Ranchers. Seriously, give those a try if you see any in those shops that do American sweets.
Fruit polos were fine, but opal fruits were too sickly - I much preferred opal mints and they didn't survive even under another name.
Haven't seen fruit polos for ages yes I preferred them to the mint
@@hannalee5756 were they called pacers I remember those liked them
@@dawnfinch8232 I don't remember them being called that. Sorry.
Brilliant stuff Steve thank uou so much 4 uploads back in time Brilliant 😀
😂 wow another great trip down memory lane, great video thanks 💖😁
Yes we had a TV like that and I remember all these adverts lovely memories 🥰
Oh we had loadsa tellys just like that from the 70's right through to the late 80's or more i think but i always remember banging the top of the telly then the sides and jim used to say'why you doing that?' Id say cus me mam and dad was always banging theirs when the picture was going..🤪🤣
The tv illusion is so effective my hair has gone back to being black.
I remember buying a Kinder surprise and after I had paid for it, I was eating it and my Grandma thought I was eating a bar of soap at first.
That Walkers crisps bag is the most 70s thing ever.
Didn't remember that fruit n nut advert but there was one with the same song but a bit faster with animated characters think it was in the early 1990s that looks like a 1970s version forget all about them pizza crisps
I often sing to myself 'it's thick as a brick & chocolatey' (it appears i have been doing this for about 30 years) & we wanna be smiths crisps !! lol
There's something special &charming about the 1980s, everyone missing it . I mean all over the world.
My friend once ate a strawberry Opal Fruit and then sneezed and her snot came out pink 😂
Priceless! 🤣
😂🤣👌
Awesome 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved Bitza Pizza crisps back in the day, and that advert is surely made by Ardman Animation - those behind Wallace and Gromit.
Just classic init nice upload Steve 💯👍
Nick naks. Now that’s a great ad!
Was that Ed Bishop (best known for UFO and the voice of Captain Blue in Gerry Anderson's productions) in the Wispa ad?
Not a clue, to be honest.
I think Ed monopolized any British programmes that required an American. Great star,will always be Straker to most of us!!
Certainly sounded like him
The first one where they lampoon the nutcracker suite is pure legend
damn i loved Dime bars as a kid...62 now.....the worlds changed !!
Cadbury has came out with a dime chocolate bar it's really tasty
Great memories
Back in the time when you actually watched the adverts and didn't fast forward through them
Nik Naks commercial is terrific. 😂
Fry's, bring back 'Five Centres' chocolate bar. Pleeeeeeease
I remember all of these ads, but you missed my favourite, screaming bad tempered Suzy with her Trio!
She's on the other Sweets & Snacks compilations.
Does anyone remember Treets? They came in a yellow packet. The equivalent now are peanut m&m's but not as good.
Yeah, I loved those and you're right - peanut M&Ms are the closest thing now.
Yes definitely remember them with the slogan “they melt in your mouth - not in your hand”.
@@debbierichens3910 that was Minstrels
Toffee tweets 😋
Treets were nice
Wow didn’t know Gary Linker was doing crisp ads that early!
I think he's been advertising crisps longer than he was a footballer.
The adverts would start and someone would put the kettle on, whilst another went for a piss, and the rest channel hopped. This is the first time I've seen some of these.
I am still in the club, eating one right now 😊🎉
All because the lady loves milk tray, who could forget that?
As one of Benny Hill's characters observed, "He just leaves it and goes. Most people would've woke her up and give her one."
@@OofusTwillip I never heard of that.
Haha, Just now i realised what a creepy character he was, would be done for stalking nowadays !
@@ronbyrne1794 I know, shame really.
I remember most of them adverts
I’d forgotten about Bizza Pizza. They were revolting!!!
I can't remember how they tasted, but I ALWAYS remembered that Jingle.
@@RetroSteveUK Herby tomato things that were full of air Steve!!
@@gripplehound Wash them down with a can of Quatro (tasted like ear wax) and you have the full set! 🤢
Asda still do the Trios , great with a hot mug of tea :-)
Even nicer with coffee ☕️
Used to love Nik Naks! Very spicy and tangy flavours.
Lush! I think you can still get them in multi-packs.
What the last comment said about the trio lady getting 23years for a dui thats a long time Anyway another great complaiton of sweet ads AMAZING STEVE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS X CHARLOTTE
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Can we discuss the multi flavoured pack of Yoyo. Different coloured smaller ones, lime green, blackcurrant purple, a red one. I don't recall the others
I only have a very vague memory of Yoyos. Might have to look that up.
@@RetroSteveUK Latterly you could only get the bigger sized Toffee flavour.
Great video 👍
Wow Lineker was doing Walkers crisp way back then. He's had a few quid of them.!!
"Do you like bubbles dad?" 😂
Isn't the line.. "You love bubbles, don't you dad.." ;-)
Lime opel fruits yum yum.Where did they go.
In my tummy! 😋
They're called Starburst now.
Their still Opal Fruits to me
Is that Harry Enfield in the Dime Advert?
Yeah. That bloke's a nutter!
After 30 years or so I sang my way through all these adverts word for word almost, it just goes to show the brainwashing power of television on the general public !
It's even worse in the US because we have advertising much more than most other nations, including things that are illegal to advertise almost everywhere else as well.
No. It shows the power of the human brain. I can sing every lyric to almost every song from the 80’s and 90’s because the songs then mattered to me.
I remember all these word for word. But cant remember my mobile number.
Omg we just did..but didnt even realise till we read your comment..how weird lol..🤣🤣🤣
My favourite was the Cabana bar. Cherry and coconut covered in chocolate. I don't know anyone who remembers them. My mouth waters at the memory.
I remember them, but only vaguely remember eating one. I love Bounty bars; stick some cherries in that & there y'go! Sounds nice.
Harry Enfield & Kathy Burke in the one for Dime Bars.
Djuice fruit and cookabilaty of gas, the only 2 that stuck without hearing them again. Power of advertising. 😊
Plastic crisp bags a paper wrapping on whispers even opalfruits before they changed to starburst... oh and a crap Gary Lineker 😆
I'm starting to wonder if the makers of these ads was under the influence 😆
Was that Richard Burton doing the Narration for the Milk Tray Advert ! Them polos are a rip-off there only the outer edge of a mint ! 😆
Was that Danny John Jules on the first Polo Advert?
Yes. Definitely.
I was hoping to see the Cadburys Flake girl.
She's on the Sweets & Snacks video Volume 1, I think. Check the playlist.
@@RetroSteveUK Just searched Flake girl, they're all there.
I wonder what happened to the holes
turned into potholes
One thing that's apparant is the variety of Club biscuits dwindled over the decades.
How many flavours do they have now? Two?
Mint, Orange, and Fruit currently, I think.
They’ve now added salted caramel, a flavour which I’m sick of seeing everywhere. Fruit are gone now. I liked the just chocolate ones.
@@mgthestrange9098 I seem to remember the emergence of salted caramel around the time it was showing up a lot on TV shows & movies. I think it's predominantly an American import.
What was the orange coloured packaged bar like kit kat with fingers
That isn't ringing any bells.
@C. Robert yes Robert thank you! It was really good
Water wrapped in chocolate i seem to re call
Bar six.
The NikNaks one :D:D:D:D
Yes!! One of my favourites. I loved the cartoon it was based on originally so I was chuffed when this advert came out.
Who remembers Double Diamond ♦️
Why can’t adverts be entertaining anymore? they’re always miserable now
...indeed, lots of happiness and not awash with mind numbing political 'correctness'.
I'm 48,& remember nearly all these ads.one chocolate bar I would like to see come back is CABANA, Anyone remember them?.
I remember the name but can't remember what was in one.
Yes I remember coconut and cherries 😘
My grandad worked in W&R Jacob in Dublin
Opal Fruits - with the original yellow/lemon sweet, now replaced by the inferior purple/blackcurrant sweet. Fun fact: did you know that the line "Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water" was created by former F1 commentator Murray Walker?
That rings a bell, but I thought it was Murray Walker?
@@RetroSteveUK Damn! You are correct, of course. Murray Hamilton was the actor who played the mayor of Amity in JAWS! Stupid me, sorry!
Whatever happened to all those flavours of club?
As far as I'm aware, we still have mint, orange, and fruit.
@@RetroSteveUK My favourite has been the fruit ones but I didn't know that apart from those other two was the other lot must not have sold well
When a chocolate bar was 7 inches and enough sugar to destroy a single tooth overnight 😊….Good old days
That never stopped in the US. :)
Look at the 'Opal Fruit' finger to sweet ratio. They're tiny now